Ran the annual Fall Fell trail race out at Kill Creek Park. It’s a 7 mile race with lots of hills, rocks, woods, and a water crossing. Running across the creek was fun in 30 degree weather. There were enough rocks and gnarly sections on the trails to keep the race from [...]
Ran the 9.5 Mile (15k) annual Sand Rat race in Lawrence this morning. It was very chilly out, in the upper 30s at the start of the race. Nevertheless I ended up with a time of 69 minutes, 46 seconds. That is a pace of 7:10 a mile in which is pretty good for [...]
I did the 8.5 Mile North Shore Trails race out at Clinton Lake Saturday morning. We had some rain the day before so the trails were really slick and muddy. This was my second Trail Nerds race. Trail races are not nearly as fast as road races, but I think they are a lot more [...]
Tucker ran his first 5k today. He has been training for it a few weeks now. This race was sponsored by the Kansas City Trail Nerds, a local trail running group. The race was out at Wyandotte County Lake Park. The park doesn’t look like one would expect Kansas to look like. [...]
For the past couple of weeks Tucker has been going out running with me in the evenings. He has already worked up to being able to run 3 miles. Of course, being that he is super competitive, he is already asking when he will be faster than most of the other runners in local 5 [...]
I kicked ass in the Trolley Run today. Ran the 4 mile race in 20:25 at a pace of 6:21 a mile. Personal best for me in the annual Trolley Run. http://www.trolleyrun.org/